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J Crouch

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PubMed1991

Sick building syndrome.

"Sick building syndrome" (SBS) is one of the more colorful terms describing an increasingly common pattern of symptoms found among workers in modern office buildings. Core symptoms include lethargy, mucous membrane irritation, headache, eye irritation, and dry skin. To prompt a diagnosis of SBS, these otherwise common symptoms must be "excessively" reported and primarily "work-related." The World Health Organization now estimates that 30% of new or remodeled office buildings show signs of SBS, and that between 10% and 30% of the occupants of these buildings are affected by SBS. Despite such figures, SBS remains poorly researched and even more poorly understood. The following review provides the clinician an overview of SBS that will allow a more accurate differential diagnosis and will help to prevent the widespread suffering that can accrue when SBS is not quickly recognized.

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PubMed1985

Utility of the Seashore Tonal Memory Test in neuropsychological assessment.

This study assessed the diagnostic utility of the Seashore Tonal Memory Test in detecting and localizing cerebral lesions. A group of 238 subjects with focal or diffuse cerebral lesions and a group of 112 normal comparison subjects were administered the Seashore Tonal Memory Test and the Halstead-Reitan Battery. All brain-damaged subgroups did significantly worse than the normal group on the Tonal Memory Test. Patients with right-hemisphere lesions were more impaired on this test than were those with left-hemisphere lesions. In contrast, Seashore Rhythm Test scores were not significantly different for groups with right- versus left-hemisphere lesions. Tonal Memory performance was not found to be related to more precise location of structural lesions within the right hemisphere. Step-wise discriminate function analyses indicated that the Tonal Memory Test adds to the Halstead-Reitan Battery in discriminating left-hemisphere from right-hemisphere lesions and that, for this purpose, it was a better discriminator than all but one of the individual tests currently in the battery.

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Preservation of neutrophils in CPD-adenine.

Human neutrophils were stored in vitro in CPD or CPD-adenine plasma under conditions designed to simulate those of leukapheresis followed by short-term preservation. Viability, morphology by light microscopy, and phagocytic ability of cells stored in either anticoagulant were similar when studied sequentially during 72 hours of storage. Thus, CPD-adenine offered no advantage, under the conditions employed, over standard CPD without adenine.

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Predictors of outcome following severe head trauma: follow-up data from the Traumatic Coma Data Bank.

Outcome as a function of employment status or return to school was evaluated in severely head-injured patients. A priori we selected the most salient demographic, physiological, neuropsychological and psychosocial outcome predictors with the aim of identifying which of there variables captured at baseline or 6 months would best predict employability at 6 or 12 months. Based on the patients evaluated at 6 months, 18% of former workers had returned to gainful employment and 62% of former students had returned to school. For those not back to work or school at 6 months, 31% of the former workers and 66% of the former students had returned by 12 months. Age, length of coma, speed for both attending and motor movements, spatial integration, and intact vocabulary were all significantly related to returning to work or school. The three most potent predictors for returning to work or school were intactness of the patient's verbal intellectual power, speed of information processing and age.

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